Open Access

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) and EDP Sciences are in favor of broad and easy access to all published scientific information and have taken numerous steps in this direction, with the different services listed below:

Open access option

Authors can pay a fee of 1500 euros (2019 price) to make their online article perpetually, universally, and freely accessible (gold open access). The fee covers only a fraction of the production costs.

Transformative open access agreements

Corresponding authors of French Institutions (see list of institutions) and Max Planck Institute in Germany benefit from free gold open access.

National Open Access Agreement in France

Max Planck Open Access Agreement

Information for Max Planck Authors

The Max Planck Society established a new agreement with EDP Sciences which includes access to Astronomy & Astrophysics journal content as well as allowing authors to publish open access in the journal. The Open Access agreement with Max Planck Society centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in this subscription-based journal that is offering the hybrid open access option and that also has a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

In order to make use of the agreement, please make sure to meet the following conditions when publishing with EDP Sciences:

The article has been accepted by the journal that offers a CC-BY license.

A Max Planck author must be the corresponding author of the article.

The author is affiliated with a Max Planck Institute and publishes under this affiliation.

The acceptance date of the article is between Jan. 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2020.

When submitting, a Max Planck email address should be used (if possible) and the Max Planck affiliation should be stated. During the production process, EDP Sciences and Max Planck Digital Library will verify author eligibility.

Green open access

The Publisher and A&A encourage arXiv archiving or self-archiving of the final PDF file of the article exactly as published in the journal and without any period of embargo.

Free access

Free sections

All Letters to the Editor and all articles published in the following sections:

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Astronomical instrumentation

Catalogs and data

Numerical methods and codes

are in free access at no cost to the authors.

Archives in free access

All articles published in the other sections of the Journal become freely accessible 12 months after publication.

Latest articles FREE

This service allows non-subscribers to the journal to gain free access to the full edition of the most recent articles of A&A on the EDP Sciences website. The Latest articles FREE service requires registration and is meant to be used by individuals for their private studies or scholarly research, and not for commercial benefit. See https://www.aanda.org/component/services/?label=laf